Simona Cohen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3891489 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simona Cohen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simona |
| FAMILY NAME | Cohen |
| SIGNATURE | COHEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Simian Man in Mantegna’s Minerva Expelling The Vices and the Promotion of Physiognomy and Comparative Anatomy in the Renaissance
Andrea Mantegna’s depiction of the simian man has been perceived merely as one of the hybrid creatures that represent vices in his painting of the Roman goddess Minerva (Pallas Athena) expelling the vices from her garden. This hybrid image has no precedent in Romanesque sculpture, moralizing bestiaries, animal tales, or Gothic margins. The raised hand of the monkey with the palm exposed reveals what is known as a simian flexion crease or a single…
Indian Hair-Wringing Apsaras and her Discriminating Goose
The present study investigates depictions of the Indian apsaras wringing water from her hair in monumental religious iconography. It demonstrates the migration of iconography and transformations of meaning from the northern sources to other areas of India and ultimately to parts of southeast Asia. I examine ancient literary and visual sources of the hair-wringing apsaras, mediator of the life-giving celestial waters, and the goose that drinks her…
Hybridity in the Colonial Arts of South India, 16th-18th Centuries
This study examines the multiplicity of styles and heterogeneity of the arts created on the southern coasts of India during the period of colonial rule. Diverging from the trajectory of numerous studies that underline biased and distorted conceptions of India promoted in European and Indian literary sources, I examine ways in which Indian cultural traditions and religious beliefs found substantial expression in visual arts that were ostensibly ge…
Exotic Animals in the Art and Culture of the Medici Court in Florence
Exotic Animals in the Art and Culture of the Medici Court in Florence. Angelica Groom.Rulers and Elites: Comparative Studies in Governance 16. Leiden: Brill, 2018. xx + 340 pp. €127. - Volume 73 Issue 4
Visual Typology in Early Modern Europe
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Book of Beasts
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Petrarch’s Famous Men in the Early Renaissance
Petrarch’s Famous Men in the Early Renaissance: The Illuminated Copies of Felice Feliciano’s Edition. Lilian Armstrong. Warburg Studies and Texts 5. London: Warburg Institute, 2016. xii + 248 pp. £45. - Volume 71 Issue 1
From the “Panchatantra” to La Fontaine
The Mermaids of Venice
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Before Disenchantment
Peter Mason. Before Disenchantment: Images of Exotic Animals and Plants in the Early Modern World. London: Reaktion Books Ltd, 2009. 272 pp. index. illus. £25. ISBN: 978–1–86189–437–3. - Volume 64 Issue 1
The Enigma of Carpaccio's Venetian Ladies
The fragmentary state of this painting by Carpaccio, and the dispersion of its extant portions in two different museums, have promoted misconceptions. The lower section was frequently read as a family portrait. The painting was closer in its original form and dimensions to Carpaccio's scuola paintings, but letters painted on the reverse and remnants of hinges indicate that it belonged to a different artistic genre. There has been an ongoing debat…
Titian's London Allegory and the three beasts of his selva oscura
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Titian's London Allegory and the three beasts of his selva oscura
The Enigma of Carpaccio's Venetian Ladies
The fragmentary state of this painting by Carpaccio, and the dispersion of its extant portions in two different museums, have promoted misconceptions. The lower section was frequently read as a family portrait. The painting was closer in its original form and dimensions to Carpaccio's scuola paintings, but letters painted on the reverse and remnants of hinges indicate that it belonged to a different artistic genre. There has been an ongoing debat…
The Mermaids of Venice
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Before Disenchantment
Peter Mason. Before Disenchantment: Images of Exotic Animals and Plants in the Early Modern World. London: Reaktion Books Ltd, 2009. 272 pp. index. illus. £25. ISBN: 978–1–86189–437–3. - Volume 64 Issue 1
From the “Panchatantra” to La Fontaine
Petrarch’s Famous Men in the Early Renaissance
Petrarch’s Famous Men in the Early Renaissance: The Illuminated Copies of Felice Feliciano’s Edition. Lilian Armstrong. Warburg Studies and Texts 5. London: Warburg Institute, 2016. xii + 248 pp. £45. - Volume 71 Issue 1
Exotic Animals in the Art and Culture of the Medici Court in Florence
Exotic Animals in the Art and Culture of the Medici Court in Florence. Angelica Groom.Rulers and Elites: Comparative Studies in Governance 16. Leiden: Brill, 2018. xx + 340 pp. €127. - Volume 73 Issue 4
Visual Typology in Early Modern Europe
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Book of Beasts
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Hybridity in the Colonial Arts of South India, 16th-18th Centuries
This study examines the multiplicity of styles and heterogeneity of the arts created on the southern coasts of India during the period of colonial rule. Diverging from the trajectory of numerous studies that underline biased and distorted conceptions of India promoted in European and Indian literary sources, I examine ways in which Indian cultural traditions and religious beliefs found substantial expression in visual arts that were ostensibly ge…
Indian Hair-Wringing Apsaras and her Discriminating Goose
The present study investigates depictions of the Indian apsaras wringing water from her hair in monumental religious iconography. It demonstrates the migration of iconography and transformations of meaning from the northern sources to other areas of India and ultimately to parts of southeast Asia. I examine ancient literary and visual sources of the hair-wringing apsaras, mediator of the life-giving celestial waters, and the goose that drinks her…
The Simian Man in Mantegna’s Minerva Expelling The Vices and the Promotion of Physiognomy and Comparative Anatomy in the Renaissance
Andrea Mantegna’s depiction of the simian man has been perceived merely as one of the hybrid creatures that represent vices in his painting of the Roman goddess Minerva (Pallas Athena) expelling the vices from her garden. This hybrid image has no precedent in Romanesque sculpture, moralizing bestiaries, animal tales, or Gothic margins. The raised hand of the monkey with the palm exposed reveals what is known as a simian flexion crease or a single…
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